Every May, every town and city in the Philippine are set in a festive mood where they celebrate feast days for saints, for good harvests, and a trademark for this particular month, flowers. But what they had in common is that they always have a procession of beautiful ladies escorted with men clad in barongs as they walk in a major road for every townsfolk to see. This is what we call here as a "sagala".
My mom like to tell us stories how back when she was younger, her cousins are always getting approached to be their "Queen" for the annual Catholic procession of Santacruzan and/or the more secular Flores de Mayo. How fun it is for the ladies to look at their best wearing beautifully-designed Filipiniana dresses and how lucky it must have been for guys to escort such lasses.
It wasn't until a couple of weeks ago when my family went to Fort Santiago and witnessed an actual sagala that was about to begin (actually the first time I wacthed a sagala was last year). The escorts look stunning on their barong get-ups while the "queens" are jaw-dropping pretty with their very beautiful gowns.
I took some pictures off of them from my mom's digicam and was amazed with the output. It made me think: What if I could be an escort for next year's May sagala?
I know it's much of a far-fetch dream but hey, this past year I had a lot of similar thoughts and ideas coming into reality. The only way I could make this one come true if I could actually make myself "escort-material". And no, when I mean "escort", I MEAN "escort" (and not the locally-twisted we had in our vocabulary).
I have the charm and I have the grace to accompany a fine-looking lady as she walks along the road, and all that's missing is getting the right stature for me to get in one of them. Hehehehe, talaga bang nagyabang? Joke! LOL!
Well, if ever I am to pursue this, I should definitely make this happen. For this thought to come true, I have to make and be that change.
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